Seller delaying purchase and proposing an entry date two and a half months later!

[TeenWhisperer]

Hi all, we are selling and buying a house. We put an offer in for the house we want to buy four and a half weeks ago and since having it received a few days later, we have sold our own house and agreed a move in date with our buyer and are just pausing conclusion of missives as we wait for our purchase to complete. The seller is moving very slowly though. It's a holiday house they're selling so we thought it would all go through quickly. We expressed our intentions to move quickly at the time of our offer and our house sold in 2 days. We have everything in place to go, mortgage etc. They are dragging their feet and after a week have come back to our move in date proposal with one two and a half months later (perhaps!). What can I do here?

They want to spend the summer there ?

That's my impression. But it doesn't seem very fair! We've only every proposed moving very swiftly. We'd like to spend the summer there!

Did they agree to moving very swiftly though? Also their swiftly and your swiftly might be two very different timescales. To me, anything under 4 months is quick having had some very drawn out chains in the past.

Well, we're agreeing it now. The norm is 6-8 weeks from offer in the Scottish market. It just seems inconsiderate to expect 19 weeks. It doesn't work for us at all and no indication of this until now.

Also, there are no chains. It's a second property to them. They don't need to wait until they can move and our buyers are cash buyers.

Apologies, I hadn’t spotted this was Scotsnet, a completely different set up!